Improved spring-lever clasp



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GUSTAVUS D. PIKE, OF CHATHAM, CONNECTICUT.

lVlPRGVED SPRING-LEVER CLASP.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,67l1, dated April 3,1866.

To all 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, GUsTAVUs D. PIKE, of Chatham, in the county ofMiddlesex, State of Connecticut, have invented ea new Spring- -LeverClasp as a Substitute for a Buckle;

and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a clasp with aspring-lever that shuts between ears upon a strap, and therebypressingthe strap to the body ofthe clasp and X ing` it permanently.

The clasp is constructed as follows, and consists ot' two parts.

Figure l represents the body of the clasp. a represents the strap-holein the body of the clasp. b b represent where the spring-lever isattached to the body of the clasp. c c represent where the strap isriveted to the body of the clasp. d d represent the ears with shouldersthat admit the spring-lever beneath them to press the strap upon thebody of the clasp. c e @represent teeth in the body of the clasp, uponwhich the strap is pressed by the springlever.

Fig. 2 represent-s the spring-lever. b b represent the place where thespring-lever is attached to the body of the clasp. d (l represent wherethe spring lever shuts between the ears upon the body of the clasp.

Fig. 3 is a section in the line a: x, Fig. 2.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The employment of the spring-lever 2, and the ears el d, and the teeth ce e, or their equivalents, combined with the strap-hole aand theriveting of clasp to strap, for the purposes specified.

GUSTAVUS D. PIKE.

Witnesses:

A. N. NILEs, WVM. H. BEoRN.

